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Conference
Why should universities and academics in the North and South collaborate?
Knowledge, development, strategy and/or competition?
UiB Global, Bergen 15-16 June 2015
Program
MONDAY
15th June
08:15 – 09:15
Registration and Coffee
09:15 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:15
Welcome by Tor Halvorsen, Researcher, UiB Global.
A.B.K.Kasozi, Research Associate, Makerere Institute of
Social Research: Research in Ugandan Universities.
10:15 – 11:00
Fadwa A. Ali Taha, University of Hafr Al Batin (KSA)
and Anders Bjørkelo, University of Bergen: The crisis of
higher education in the Sudan with special reference to the
University of Khartoum, 1956-2013.
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:00
Coffee
Maria G. N. Musoke, Makerere University Library and
Ane Landøy, University of Bergen Library: South-north
collaboration enhances service delivery at Makerere and
Bergen university libraries and beyond.
12:00 – 12:45
Terje Kolbu Jacobsen and Torill Iversen Wanvik, Senior
Advisers, (SIU) Norwegian Centre for International
Cooperation in Education: Presentation of NOMA/Nufu
Graduate Tracer Study.
12:45 – 13:30
13:30 – 13:45
Lunch
Welcome by UiB Vice-Rector for international Affairs,
Anne Christine Johannessen.
Göran Hydén, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
University of Florida: Funding of the world of higher
education and research.
13:45 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:15
15:15 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15
18.00
John Higgins, Arderne Chair of Literature, University of
Cape Town: Knowledge and democracy in academic
collaboration
Coffee
Jorun Nossum, Senior Adviser, Norad: Norad’s
perspectives on knowledge for development.
Summary
Buffet, Bergen Resource Centre for International
Development
TUESDAY
16th June
09:15 - 10:30
Evan Berry, Department of Philosophy and Religion,
American University: Latin America and the USA.
10:15 – 11:15
Ishtiaq Jamil, Amin Sarkar and Sk. Tawfique,
Department of Political Science and Sociology (PSS), North
South University, Dhaka -1229, Bangladesh: Knowledge
generation through joint research by Southern and
Northern universities: Can North and South learn from
each other?
11:30 – 12:15
Johnson M Ishengoma, University of Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania: North-South Collaboration between Universities
and Academics: Myths and Realities from a Southern
Perspective.
12:15 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30
Lunch
Dianah Nampijja, PhD candidate, Christian Webersik,
Associate Professor, Department for Global Development
and Planning, University of Agder: Contextualising mobile
learning for climate change adaptation: Ensuring food
security in Uganda.
13:30 – 14:45
Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Associate Professor, Department of
History and Religious Studies, UiT: The study of and
collaboration with Bribris in Talamanca, Costa Rica.
14:45 – 15:30
Ayanda Wiseman Nombila, Phd candidate
Interdisciplinary Social Studies, Makerere Institute of Social
Research (MISR): An Intellectual History of African
Debates: A Study of the Council for the Development of
Social Sciences Research in Africa (Codesria).
15:30 – 15:45
15:45 – 16:30
Coffee
Joe Mlenga, University of Malawi: Building open gift
relations between south and north by learning from each
other: the case study of University of Malawi and University
of Tromsø in Norway.
16:30 – 17:00
18.00
Tor Halvorsen, UiB Global: Summary - Why collaborate?
Optional Dinner
For questions and requests about the program and arrangement, please contact us.
Hans Geir Aasmundsen, academic coordinator: [email protected],
phone +47 47243996
Kristine Ullaland, administrative coordinator: [email protected], phone +47
48109382